For reasons beyond my comprehension, The Viewhas been extra ridiculous this week, so of course they had to go out with a bang. This morning, the panel steamed up Hot Topics when they discussed having “the talk” with their parents. Before long, the women (okay, just Joy Behar) began talking about their own sexual experiences, with Behar revealing that she was “a technical virgin” when she got married. Meghan McCain, usually one to shy away from sexy topics, also chimed in, saying that it should surprise no one to learn that her parents, late Sen. John McCain and Cindy McCain, “did not have a sex talk” with her. Instead, she learned “in a locker school in middle school,” as one does.

The View‘s TMI-filled discussion came as a response to a mother who wrote to an advice columnist expressing her concern that her 18-year-old son was going to have sex on a beach trip. After introducing the “sex topic,” Behar noted that “he’s 18,” so it’s very possible he’s already had sex. “I always say, this is when the dinosaurs roamed the earth,” she said of her first time. “I was waiting to get married — almost. I was a technical virgin.” Guest co-host Ana Navarro questioned the phrase “technical virgin,” but McCain stepped in to defend her frequent sparring partner. “I know what that means,” said McCain. “I went to Catholic school.”

Sunny Hostin didn’t feel the same. “Why are people having sex at 18? You don’t even know yourself,” she said. “You’re sharing yourself with someone else, you don’t even know yourself.” Behar pushed back. “You have to know yourself before you can have sex? What?” she asked, “I would have had to wait after 25 years of therapy, then.”

The discussion then shifted to sex education and the “birds and the bees” conversation. “Am I the only one who had the awkward sex talk with my mom?” asked Abby Huntsman. As it turns out, yes. “My parents, shocker, did not have a sex talk with me. I come from a very WASP-y family,” said McCain, adding that she learned about sex “in a locker room in middle school.” Continued McCain, “I will say, if I had kids, I would have a sex talk. And I would also say, ‘Sex is part of life. It’s part of healthy relationships. I hope when you decide to do it, you’re with someone you really care about. But here’s all you need to know about birth control and protection.'”

Behar then added (bizarrely), “It’s the logistics that make me nervous. Like, how do you do it?” Naturally, her co-hosts asked whether she was referring to the birds and the bees conversation or sex itself. “No, the actual sex,” relied Behar. “When you have to say to them, ‘Nature abhors a vacuum.’ That’s the closest I could get.”